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Comment by shipwreck

This is the Darkmoon Faire NPC that offers Heirloom gear for purchase with the new Darkmoon Prize Ticket currency, which is rewarded from doing the quests available on Darkmoon Island.

Currently, he only offers the same heirlooms that are available for purchase from other vendors. The heirloom rings and pants that have been data-mined are not available from this vendor.

Comment by TheGrimSage

After checking Darkmoon Prize Ticket page, this NPC looks like the easiest source of heirlooms for new players.

Downrate all you want, but new players at low levels can get a piece here quicker than they would with honor at pvp, while still having spare time

Comment by AoBman05

I imagine that if someone was REALLY willing to... They could roll a Death Knight and possibly get get one heirloom from the Faire each month. Doing every possible quest and every daily for the entire week will net you ~136 tickets, which is enough to buy any but the 2H'der heirlooms (the 2H'ders cost 160 tickets).

If they're particularly crafty, they could make alts and get an entire set specifically for them. (Example: Get the cloth BoAs and the Devout Aurastone Hammer and you've pretty much completely covered most spell casting specs.)

This will likely be FAR too tedious for most people to consider, and the turn-ins will likely be either too costly, or too rare with the recent nerf to the drops, for this to be viable trick. Regardless, the Darkmoon Faire is definitely a bit of a Disc One Nuke for the more "hardcore" among us, seeing how most Heirlooms are normally unobtainable until the higher, if not the maximum, levels. This ultimately makes the DMF a somewhat decent means to kick start rerolling on a new server, albeit something done over a month or two beforehand.

Be aware that you'll need to buy the tokens to play the minigames (the cost scales with character level) -- which is why I suggest creating a Death Knight for the purpose of getting some gold (you'll get quite a bit just from their starter zone alone). You'll have to do both dungeons and battlegrounds for the turn-ins drops (be sure to grab a Darkmoon Adventurer's Guide beforehand) -- which can easily be done as a Death Knight as well.

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Comment by Superchief

The depravity of a pvp vendor in the form of a pve vendor. Will you spend the next several weeks grinding up that heirloom gear with darkmoon tickets? Or the next couple days with your level 85 tank farming justice points?

Comment by LentzRose

the darkmoon vendor sells only the Polished set I do not see the other plate set that Wowhead says this vendor sells.

Comment by gold393939

If ur Really smart u can make a dk get a heirloom send it to one of ur alts and then make another dk and so on.Its probably the best way to get heirlooms.

Comment by Shepherdess

Wish I would've noticed the shields/off-hands aren't sold here (yet?) before I switched to a toon with tickets and wandered all the way out here. -_-

Comment by Bogdanov89

Just to point out that the Gear/Weapon (even Trinket) heirlooms in Cataclysm zones (lvl80-85) are usually a bit weaker than the quest rewards you get.

Also your heirlooms are going to be extremely weak at level 80 - since they are still in WotLK mode (unlike Cata quest rewards) and only "scale up" to Cata item levels at level 81.My health and damage output TRIPLED once i got level 81, but going through level 80 in "WotLK heirlooms" has horrible.

Overall, as far as Cataclysm leveling goes, Heirloom's power lies in it's Experience bonus (my gear gives me +50% exp in total) - but you will be doing slightly less damage since your lvl81-85 Heirloom items are just slightly weaker than green/blue quest rewards...

Comment by JCLgaming

As of 6.0 and the removal of justice points, this guy is now the only one who sells heirlooms. All the other Heirloom vendors minus the guild ones have been removed. Gonna be a lot of people grinding dem tickets from now on...

Comment by Reddervish

Needs to be updated for 6.1

And he sells 2nd tier upgrades to lvl 100 gear

Also, the comments about this and the guild vendor being the only other source for heirlooms is no longer correct, each faction has an heirloom vendor who sells for gold.

My experience is that at level 90 in Pandaria the gear is comparable to the questing gear with the addition of an xp buff which get you thru pandaria very quickly (from 85-90). But at lvl 90 if you start Draenor, you will find the heirlooms somewhat weaker than the questing gear until you get to 91. So there is a slight tradeoff, ie: either use the heirlooms to get the faster xp gains, or use the quest gear for better ilvl.